Duncan Payne is a Sheffield-based software engineer with a passion for photography and cooking. His photography interests cover a wide range of disciplines, including landscapes, wildlife and macro, as well as portraiture and wedding photography.

Duncan Payne is a Sheffield-based software engineer with a passion for photography and cooking. His photography interests cover a wide range of disciplines, including landscapes, wildlife and macro, as well as portraiture and wedding photography.

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After getting my current laptop (a few years ago now), I immediately installed Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu for a really long time, and had no real desire to use Windows. More recently though, there have been a few […]

I had a requirement to change the navigation animation moving from one view to another in a recent project – based on the newly loaded view being a kind-of external tool in the context of the app I was developing. […]

On iOS devices there is a little spinner on the status bar which can be used to communicate to the user that some form of network access is underway. Making use of this feature is as simple as:
UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
The problem […]

I’ve had a Weber pizza stone for some time now and have spent some time trying to perfect pizza baking on my 47cm Weber kettle BBQ. I often found that my pizzas weren’t cooking all the way through or that […]

This is a quick post based on some recent experiences with music playback from the Chromecast (and PS3) through an AV receiver and some of the issues I have come across.
I recently decided to invest in an AV receiver and […]

One of the weddings I took photos at last year has been featured on the Daily Mail website. It’s petty cool to have been featured.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2685774/Who-says-wedding-cost-earth-Meet-bride-dream-day-4-000-dress-paid-waiters-beer-instead-money.html
The wedding, one which was featured in a blog post on here a while ago, was […]

I’ve been running Ubuntu under 32-bit for a very long time – in fact, in all the years I have used Ubuntu, I have never installed a different architecture (unless you’re talking about Ubuntu server). Histirically, this has always been […]